What the best cooking recipe that has a lot of stamina?

Definetly the Feasts! (Seafood,Fruit,Veggie,Nutty,Bread and Bug feast!)

Ye, seconding raw fish meat for bang for your buck; 20 stamina per doesn't seem like a lot, but you can cook 480 stamina worth of food at a time with a fully upgraded pot. That same fully upgraded pot gets you a whopping 320 stamina worth of those "feasts" because most of them you can only cook 4 of at a time. :P I cook most other recipes one time to unlock them in the recipe book... and then ignore them, unfortunately. Maybe there is profit in selling them to folks, I'm not sure!

If the feasts (and really most of the recipes more complicated than simple cooked meat and fish) gave you more than one finished item per craft, they could be much more worthwhile! There is a lot of room for buffing higher tier cooking recipes without needing to unnecessarily nerf the more basic recipes (and thus make the early game just horrible for new players with small dens).

Apparently I zoned out and made thousands of salads. . . Honestly, I don't eat any of the food that the farmers use. I mostly stick to the feasts, cooked fish, meat, and eggs. I haven't sat down to crunch what you would get for some of these recipes if you just cooked their cookable ingredients as opposed to making the whole feast so . . . for the sake of science I might do that in a new topic or something and link back?